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> That's not a good idea though.

I wonder why you say that. At least an ad for a specific ad blocker sounds like a great idea.

- Ideally, you don't send ads to users of your product - Users of inferior products will see your ad, and it might be super effective (if you used MY adblocker, you wouldn't be seeing this ad) - Everything else is a user that doesn't have an ad blocker, and it's probably an easy sell to say "would you like to never see ads like this?"

Could be worth it the price if the top one is an extension you own and lets some specific “partner ads” through.

I can definitely see shady companies doing this.

Show ads for ad-blockers. Deliver an ad-blocker with spyware or other forms of malware.

The anti-malware industry used to be dominated by tools that ended up being malware (I’m sure that hasn’t changed much TBH).